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Life expectancy at birth, by sex by country

Period life expectancy at birth.

Countries reporting
229
Highest
88.5 years
Monaco
Lowest
54.74 years
Nigeria
Median
78.39 years
Years covered
74
1950–2023
Data points
17,464

What the numbers show

Life expectancy at birth, by sex is currently reported for 229 countries. The highest value is 88.5 years in Monaco; the lowest is 54.74 years in Nigeria.

The median across all reporting countries is 78.39 years, and the mean is 76.56 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 217 countries rose and 12 fell. The largest increase was in Eswatini (up 23.7%), and the largest decrease in Libya (down 6.2%).

Life expectancy at birth, by sex: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Monaco 88.5 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
2 Hong Kong 88.13 years 2023 up 1.8% rising
3 Japan 87.74 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
4 South Korea 87.16 years 2023 up 2.3% rising
5 San Marino 87.1 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
6 Saint Barthelemy 86.81 years 2023 down 0.4% rising
7 French Polynesia 86.5 years 2023 up 2.2% rising
8 Reunion 86.33 years 2023 up 2.0% rising
9 Spain 86.31 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
10 Singapore 86.24 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
11 Gibraltar 86.14 years 2023 up 1.1% rising
12 Andorra 86.11 years 2023 down 0.6% rising
13 France 86.09 years 2023 up 1.2% rising
14 Switzerland 85.83 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
15 Italy 85.75 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
16 Bermuda 85.74 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
17 Australia 85.74 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
19 Guernsey 85.58 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
23 Macao 85.25 years 2023 up 0.3% rising
24 Puerto Rico 85.24 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
25 Vatican 85.12 years 2023 up 0.5% rising
26 Portugal 85.12 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
27 Sweden 85.1 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
28 Norway 84.85 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
29 Canada 84.83 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
30 Finland 84.67 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
31 Israel 84.59 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
32 Iceland 84.51 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
34 Slovenia 84.34 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
35 Greece 84.33 years 2023 up 0.4% rising
36 Belgium 84.33 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
37 Austria 84.32 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
38 United Arab Emirates 84.2 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
39 Denmark 83.86 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
40 Saint Martin (French part) 83.84 years 2023 up 0.8% rising
42 New Zealand 83.77 years 2023 up 0.4% rising
43 Germany 83.76 years 2023 up 1.1% rising
44 Netherlands 83.74 years 2023 up 0.8% rising
45 Cyprus 83.67 years 2023 down 0.1% rising
46 Taiwan 83.61 years 2023 up 0.6% rising
47 Costa Rica 83.42 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
48 Qatar 83.37 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
49 United Kingdom 83.21 years 2023 up 0.5% rising
50 Isle of Man 83.13 years 2023 up 1.8% rising
51 Chile 83.08 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
52 Estonia 83.04 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
53 Cayman Islands 82.87 years 2023 up 3.3% rising
54 Maldives 82.82 years 2023 up 4.2% rising
55 Anguilla 82.66 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
56 Czechia 82.64 years 2023 up 1.8% rising
57 Panama 82.56 years 2023 up 2.7% rising
58 Faroe Islands 82.5 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
59 Poland 82.35 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
60 Bahrain 81.99 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
61 Uruguay 81.92 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
62 Oman 81.88 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
63 United States 81.85 years 2023 up 0.8% rising
64 Kuwait 81.85 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
65 Jersey 81.76 years 2023 down 1.6% rising
66 Croatia 81.69 years 2023 up 1.1% rising
67 Slovakia 81.58 years 2023 up 2.0% rising
68 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 81.52 years 2023 up 0.4% rising
69 Albania 81.45 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
70 Guam 81.42 years 2023 up 1.1% rising
71 United States Virgin Islands 81.35 years 2023 up 2.9% rising
72 New Caledonia 81.29 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
73 Falkland Islands 81.24 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
74 Saudi Arabia 81.16 years 2023 up 3.0% rising
75 China 80.93 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina 80.9 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
77 Thailand 80.86 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
78 Curacao 80.82 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
79 Northern Mariana Islands 80.74 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
80 Lithuania 80.67 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
81 Saint Helena 80.62 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
82 Sri Lanka 80.59 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
83 Cuba 80.52 years 2023 up 0.5% rising
84 Latvia 80.47 years 2023 up 2.2% rising
85 Colombia 80.45 years 2023 up 2.0% rising
86 Montenegro 80.31 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
87 Turks and Caicos Islands 80.3 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
88 Antigua and Barbuda 80.29 years 2023 down 0.0% rising
89 Ukraine 80.2 years 2023 up 4.9% rising
90 Jordan 80.19 years 2023 up 4.7% rising
91 Hungary 80.19 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
92 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 80.16 years 2023 up 0.5% rising
93 Ecuador 80.14 years 2023 up 2.2% rising
94 Peru 80.12 years 2023 up 4.2% rising
95 British Virgin Islands 80.05 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
96 Serbia 80.04 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
97 French Guiana 79.99 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
98 Argentina 79.88 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
99 Turkey 79.86 years 2023 up 0.6% rising
100 Lebanon 79.73 years 2023 down 0.2% rising
101 Iran 79.63 years 2023 up 3.0% rising
102 Wallis and Futuna 79.62 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
103 North Macedonia 79.57 years 2023 up 2.2% rising
104 Romania 79.56 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
105 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 79.53 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
106 Armenia 79.45 years 2023 up 2.6% rising
107 Malaysia 79.37 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
108 Vietnam 79.26 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
109 Bulgaria 79.21 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
110 Cape Verde 79.21 years 2023 up 2.8% rising
111 Tunisia 79.15 years 2023 up 2.6% rising
112 Georgia 79.11 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
113 Belarus 79.06 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
114 Cook Islands 79.05 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
115 Russia 79.04 years 2023 up 3.7% rising
116 Brazil 78.98 years 2023 up 1.2% rising
117 Tokelau 78.92 years 2023 up 2.2% rising
118 Montserrat 78.81 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
119 Aruba 78.78 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
120 Barbados 78.61 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
121 Kazakhstan 78.39 years 2023 up 3.8% rising
122 Grenada 78.36 years 2023 up 0.8% rising
124 Bahamas 78.19 years 2023 up 0.8% rising
125 Mauritius 78.18 years 2023 up 0.6% rising
126 Mexico 77.81 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
127 Algeria 77.7 years 2023 up 2.3% rising
128 Morocco 77.6 years 2023 up 4.9% rising
129 Brunei 77.56 years 2023 up 0.6% rising
130 Nicaragua 77.42 years 2023 up 2.5% rising
131 Azerbaijan 77.13 years 2023 up 3.5% rising
132 Dominican Republic 76.97 years 2023 up 0.2% rising
133 Paraguay 76.95 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
134 Suriname 76.83 years 2023 up 4.4% rising
135 Trinidad and Tobago 76.68 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
136 Seychelles 76.52 years 2023 up 0.5% rising
137 Venezuela 76.5 years 2023 down 1.3% rising
138 Belize 76.5 years 2023 up 2.9% rising
139 Mongolia 76.43 years 2023 up 4.9% rising
140 Tonga 76.41 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
141 Bangladesh 76.37 years 2023 up 6.8% rising
142 Saint Lucia 76.3 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
143 El Salvador 76.26 years 2023 up 0.8% rising
144 Saint Kitts and Nevis 76.02 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
145 American Samoa 75.84 years 2023 up 0.6% rising
146 North Korea 75.74 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
147 Moldova 75.53 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
148 Honduras 75.5 years 2023 up 3.1% rising
149 Uzbekistan 75.4 years 2023 up 2.4% rising
150 Kyrgyzstan 75.25 years 2023 up 3.6% rising
151 Bhutan 74.97 years 2023 up 4.3% rising
152 Guatemala 74.88 years 2023 up 1.8% rising
153 Dominica 74.55 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
154 Syria 74.41 years 2023 up 5.0% rising
155 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 74.31 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
156 Iraq 74.06 years 2023 up 4.0% rising
157 Jamaica 73.99 years 2023 down 0.7% rising
158 Tajikistan 73.98 years 2023 up 2.8% rising
159 Guyana 73.94 years 2023 up 4.9% rising
160 Vanuatu 73.93 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
161 Egypt 73.81 years 2023 up 2.4% rising
162 Sao Tome and Principe 73.73 years 2023 up 8.5% rising
163 Samoa 73.66 years 2023 up 0.1% rising
164 India 73.6 years 2023 up 4.9% rising
165 Western Sahara 73.55 years 2023 up 4.3% rising
166 Indonesia 73.27 years 2023 up 3.2% rising
167 Cambodia 73.19 years 2023 up 3.1% rising
168 Turkmenistan 72.84 years 2023 up 1.1% rising
169 Philippines 72.82 years 2023 up 0.7% rising
170 Niue 72.71 years 2023 up 2.0% rising
171 Greenland 72.44 years 2023 up 0.6% rising
172 Solomon Islands 71.98 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
173 Nepal 71.84 years 2023 up 4.1% rising
174 Palau 71.8 years 2023 down 1.1% rising
175 Botswana 71.7 years 2023 up 13.5% rising
176 Palestine 71.5 years 2023 down 6.1% rising
177 Yemen 71.39 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
178 Namibia 71.34 years 2023 up 16.0% rising
179 Laos 71.25 years 2023 up 4.8% rising
180 Bolivia 71.14 years 2023 up 3.0% rising
181 Micronesia (country) 71.12 years 2023 up 4.3% rising
182 Uganda 71.12 years 2023 up 10.0% rising
183 Gabon 71.05 years 2023 up 4.5% rising
184 Senegal 70.75 years 2023 up 4.6% rising
185 Ethiopia 70.73 years 2023 up 9.4% rising
186 Tuvalu 70.7 years 2023 up 3.3% rising
187 Eritrea 70.66 years 2023 up 5.5% rising
188 Malawi 70.56 years 2023 up 11.0% rising
189 Mauritania 70.48 years 2023 up 3.5% rising
190 Libya 70.42 years 2023 down 6.2% rising
191 Myanmar 70.16 years 2023 up 3.8% rising
192 Pakistan 70.16 years 2023 up 3.9% rising
193 Rwanda 69.89 years 2023 up 5.1% rising
194 Tanzania 69.78 years 2023 up 7.7% rising
195 Sudan 69.63 years 2023 up 4.6% rising
196 South Africa 69.6 years 2023 up 6.7% rising
197 East Timor 69.44 years 2023 up 4.5% rising
198 Fiji 69.36 years 2023 up 1.1% rising
199 Marshall Islands 69.33 years 2023 up 3.1% rising
200 Papua New Guinea 69.08 years 2023 up 3.5% rising
201 Comoros 68.93 years 2023 up 5.1% rising
202 Zambia 68.67 years 2023 up 12.3% rising
203 Djibouti 68.51 years 2023 up 6.3% rising
204 Haiti 68.3 years 2023 up 4.7% rising
205 Kiribati 68.17 years 2023 up 1.0% rising
206 Ghana 67.94 years 2023 up 5.9% rising
207 Afghanistan 67.54 years 2023 up 5.8% rising
208 Gambia 67.53 years 2023 up 6.4% rising
209 Congo 67.46 years 2023 up 4.7% rising
210 Angola 67.14 years 2023 up 8.3% rising
211 Eswatini 66.95 years 2023 up 23.7% rising
212 Mozambique 66.54 years 2023 up 13.0% rising
213 Guinea-Bissau 66.36 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
214 Cameroon 65.94 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
215 Kenya 65.92 years 2023 up 3.6% rising
216 Burundi 65.7 years 2023 up 8.3% rising
217 Equatorial Guinea 65.66 years 2023 up 7.0% rising
218 Madagascar 65.38 years 2023 up 0.9% rising
219 Zimbabwe 65.01 years 2023 up 11.8% flat
220 Cote d'Ivoire 64.13 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
221 Democratic Republic of Congo 64.04 years 2023 up 7.6% rising
222 Nauru 64 years 2023 down 0.1% rising
223 Sierra Leone 63.5 years 2023 up 15.6% rising
224 Liberia 63.44 years 2023 up 3.7% rising
225 Burkina Faso 63.22 years 2023 up 6.4% rising
226 Togo 62.92 years 2023 up 7.3% rising
227 Benin 62.21 years 2023 up 4.0% rising
228 Niger 62.13 years 2023 up 5.2% rising
229 Mali 61.9 years 2023 up 6.5% rising
230 Guinea 61.9 years 2023 up 5.3% rising
231 Somalia 61.39 years 2023 up 9.7% rising
232 South Sudan 60.63 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
233 Lesotho 60.01 years 2023 up 15.5% flat
234 Central African Republic 59.29 years 2023 up 13.6% rising
235 Chad 57.01 years 2023 up 9.5% rising
236 Nigeria 54.74 years 2023 up 4.9% rising

About this data

Indicator
Life expectancy at birth, by sex
Unit
years
Source
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
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Period life expectancy at birth.